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This is the easy bit of the climb too...
Horrible seeing him drop off like that. I suppose as a Brit I have to be happy that this has been caused because another British rider (I know, I know...) is also competing for a GT win. Ignoring the in-house Sky squabbling between Froome and Wiggins, has there every been a scenario, this far into a GT where there are two Brits genuinely competing to win the thing?
My estimations are there's 45km of climbing before the end of the stage. If Sky keep this going today, thats going to create a large gap as Klunk says.
wonder if yates will climb off and claim illness? peddling squares and overheating, going to be better than coming in so far down
2 minutes down already
Gutted - though I half-expected this would happen after yesterday. Wonder if he's just feeling the efforts he's put in or if he is ill as some rumours suggest. On the plus side at least it should stop people assuming he's a doper as per earlier in this thread!
Time to turn off the live feed and wait for the highlihgts to see if Froome can bite a bunch of time back
Damn!
Just started watching - poor old Yates
They ALL look like death warmed-up though. Interesting to see how it pans out overall
Even Rohan Denis has caught and passed the poor chap.
theres still 80km to go!!
**** me Froomy! Can he make it stick!?
Froome's looking good here!!
Yates 4:30 back, Pink Jersey gone what a shame. Its about Froome & TD now, will Froome blow?
this is brilliant. TomDum looks solid though.
The descent will be interesting.
7 Minutes to Yates - Did he forget to eat for the last couple of days? Gutted for him.
feel sick for Yates, really thought he was nailed on after the TT
Pinot to take out TomDum with his fantastic descending skills ?
Wished I'd never looked at this thread. I'm having to watch the live feed now😁
Productivity here on the floor this afternoon. This is compelling....
Indeed - I just tried to think if there was a work task I could do that didn't require my eyes
Is Froome alone?
LOL at the guy waving the giant asthma inhaler at Froome!
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Is Froome alone?
Yes, at 37 seconds - 73km (and 2 climbs) still to go!
The descent, EEEEEEEEEEEEEK!
Holy crap, I would not want to descend on that, especially competitively.
Shame for Yates, but hey.. he held the Pink and won stages whilst wearing it..
Awesome lad.
Not bothered if Froomidge rides off the front, he shouldn't even be in the race with the doping allocation investigation still being heard. He should have never signed on.
Hope Tom does well, and SunWeb (ten Dam) dribbles in the camera... great squad.
If froome pulls this off, it's the stuff of legends. It's like he's taken over contadors role.
TomDum has people with him but they aren't helping him at all. So it's Froome vs TomDum, as a straight fight.
he shouldn’t even be in the race with the doping allocation investigation still being heard.
Yes he should. Unless you're an advocate of changing the rules to suit your own opinions.
Here's a thought. Sky buried themselves on one climb today and then sat up (apart from Poels). It's not like they've pulled for 4 hours. Plenty fresh-ish legs left for tomorrow...
Gutted for Yates, absolutely gutted. But at the same time, what a race this Giro is turning in to, just magnificent. It'll be very interesting to see if Froome can make this stick, in theory Dumoulin's group should bring him back but I have this sneaky suspicion they won't.
Froome is smashing them!
Yes he should. Unless you’re an advocate of changing the rules to suit your own opinions.
No he shouldn't. He should show some respect to the Race.
Yates is still a legend. Can't take that away from him. Froome too. Best Grand Tour I've watched fora long time.
If he can keep this up, he could well be in Pink later on. What a story that would be.
If froome pulls this off, it’s the stuff of legends. It’s like he’s taken over contadors role.
Very much devil's advocate this but is that the role where you win the race and then get stripped of the victory a few months later when your AAF is heard? Kind of a bad choice of rider to compare him to!
Nope, I meant he'll be the rider to actually make the race interesting. You know, attack with 80km, and 3 climbs still to go.
But yeah, there's other similarities 😁
Dare I ask if this is a bit Floyd Landis into Morzine in 2006?
this is incredible, isn't it?
TD less than a minute ahead of Froome with another +5000m to go?
How steady is the gap between them?
Feel sorry for Yates .
Froome antics reminds me of that amarican guy in the tdf a few years ago . It did not end well .
According to the Giro website Froome has 2:30 on TD group and 4:10 on Poz group
15:45
3 Km to the GPM Delay of the bunch POZZOVIVO: 4:10.
15:43
3 Km to the GPM Relay of followers 2:30.
2:38 according to Guardian live feed. Amazing if he pulls it off.
As amazing as this ride is I feel myself identifying more with the suffering that Yates is having to go through, in public dragging himself up these slopes with no quick end in sight all the time knowing that its all for nothing.
Christ it's a cruel sport at times.
Bear in mind he took around a minute of that lead on the descent from the Finestre.
Froome now has 2:43. Is that virtual lead?
Needs 2.49 if Dumoulin comes in second according to Eurosport
It's very close - about ten seconds off I think - but you need to factor in the time bonuses for first, second and third, so yes and no and maybe...
"Chris Froome is forced to swerve around a crashed race motorcycle while cycling through a dark tunnel. Luckily, the driver of the motorbike appears to be OK. That’s the second close, motorcycle-related shave Froome has had today - on the descent of the Finestre, a motorcycle bearing a cameraman had to brake suddenly to avoid knocking him off his bike."
This is making a great Giro even better.
Just an observation for the AAF 'ban him' crowd:
1. Its an AAF and the public only know about it as it was a leaked hack.
2. We therefore have no idea who else in the peloton has a current or recent AAF.
3. There is no reliable evidence that Salbutamol is actually anabolic or beneficial in recovery from extreme physical effort.
4. There is a huge amount of evidence to show that too much Salbutamol has significant adverse cardiac effects which would reduce exercise ability (heres just one study - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4910012/)
5. In all honesty I am pretty sure that drugs cheating is rife in professional sports - where there is financial incentive there there is incentive to cheat. Djokovic suddenly becoming an immense athlete because a family friend decided he had coeliac disease? Nadals bulk and acne issues? Why exactly was Fuentes' freezer destroyed after Armstrong? Perhaps because Real Madrid / Barca etc had bags and bags of blood in it? After all the financial rewards in cycling are pathetic compared to football and s(he) who gets around the pitch more and faster can earn more......
just my 2p
2.56 virtual leader.
I'm watching an Isreali stream in Hebrew, is there any English audio streams?
cyclingfans on twitter is good.
I read Aru climbed off this morning 😩
Christ on a bike - I missed the early part of the day and missed the main action! I need to watch the highlights tonight :-O
Cyclingstream.com is what I'm watching it on. In Engish, but it has crashed a couple of times.
Holy cow!
Froome needs mone than 3.04 to be in pink .
It really is an impressive feat and shows panache and a willingness to gamble everything. However, i still cant warm to the guy or team Sky. I think its the cold and highly professional sense of detachment I get from them that’s so hard to identify with, and I think that Brailsford is an arrogant tossser of the highest order. But that’s Sky really, love them or hate them they are a very successful team.
3.13 to TDM group
8.15 to Yates
Wow.
sorry 2.43 , not 3.04 .
Amazing. Sat here it work and watched the whole thing. Blown away by what his done today. I'm not his biggest fan but credit where credits due. Phenomenal ride.
That was simply an amazing ride. 80km, on his own out front, and into pink.
🤯
utterly magnificent. so glad I got to watch that
I need a rest after that.
Amazing ride from Chris, the stuff of legend
just incredible
Wow, that was brilliant!
40 sec advantage
Amazing!
TD towed them pretty much to the line - and no bonus points!
When Carlton says "He has his detractors, but surely all will join in admiration for Chris Froome", he clearly doesn't read the same forums I do!
That was bonkers. I do think you need to bear in mind that there's no-one else in the field who climbs at Froome's level when he's on a good day. No Quintana, Landa, Barguil or Nibali. And Yates seems to have basically peaked too soon. First real, big, sustained climbing day in week three of the tour.
Be interesting to see how it goes tomorrow though. That was one hell of an effort.
Be a long ride in for Yates, tough day. Chapeau to Froome, super human effort.
When Carlton says “He has his detractors, but surely all will join in admiration for Chris Froome”, he clearly doesn’t read the same forums I do!
Haterz will hate, but you'll never see a bigger performance than that.
That was one hell of an effort.
He's just been interviewed looking remarkably composed, and saying that he tried to ride within his limits despite pushing hard.
Amazing to watch.
As big an effort as Froome gave today - Dumoulin probably gave just as much effort chasing; he got very little help off the group he was with.
Yates has done superbly in this Giro - to have even got into the pink jersey is amazing ... to have been looking like he could keep hold of it is something else!
Yates has done superbly in this Giro – to have even got into the pink jersey is amazing … to have been looking like he could keep hold of it is something else!
It looked like he couldn't lose it 2 days ago. And there was a point it seemed unlikely Froome would get on the podium!
Can't wait for tomorrow now.
I'm so disappointed.
After 30 odd years of watching stage racing I give up. His doctor is magnificent.
I’m so disappointed.
After 30 odd years of watching stage racing I give up. His doctor is magnificent.
Because no-one else ever produced a crushing performance?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_career_achievements_by_Eddy_Merckx
Merckx was a drug user also, but in his era there wasn't a concerted effort to eliminate it.